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The transformation of the Republican Party

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Jul 31, 2019.

  1. Sweet Lou 4 2

    Sweet Lou 4 2 Contributing Member
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    Who could believe that this was the party platform in 1956:

     
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    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Look like a bunch of socialists.
     
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    Bloody commies
     
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    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Pinko liberals.
     
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    The party over country people like the OP only care about this topic.

    Vote on principle, not party.
     
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    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    We all know blacks were Republicans before the Civil Rights Act.

    A conservative made the same thread about Democrats a few weeks ago.
     
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    See, I knew the tradcon GOP was (were?) a bunch of lefties.....:D
     
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    Those elements seem so conveniently current that I had to fact-check it. But, it's apparently mostly true. I'm not surprised. The Republican party was the liberal party until the '60s. This transformation happened a long time ago, and we're actually in a new transformation of the Republican party now. What might be surprising -- and encouraging in one way and discouraging in another -- is the remarkable consistency in the goals of liberals over time.
     
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    Another republican leaving congress...

     
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    Also, that Republicans nominated one of the few no-votes right after the civil rights bill. They could have outflanked Democrats on peacetime drafts, civil rights and probably pre-empted three separate cultural movements; but black men trying on shoes or eating dinner at a diner was the Y2K of that time.
     
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    Stop serving Texas to nexus the techses and natsecses
    It's not a hobby prolly be back here just in the lobby
     
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    If it wasn't for the Republicans in the Senate voting for it, thanks to Minority Leader Everett Dirksen supporting LBJ, the Civil Rights Act wouldn't have passed. The Southern Democrats in the Senate were largely against it, despite Johnson's famous arm twisting. Today's GOP isn't remotely like it used to be, and the country is far worse off because of it. Republicans and Democrats in Congress used to disagree in public, but often got their families together on weekends, being good friends in private. No longer. There was already a divide between the two political parties, but McConnell and trump have driven a stake though the heart of any comity that once existed. It will take years to repair the damage, assuming the GOP returns to even a semblance of a mainstream party.
     
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    Lots of exes trying to write and sell books about what a douche Trump is.
     
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    It would help if you had some principles.
     
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    The GOP is now a far right nationalist party. There will be no reconciliation.
     
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    Oh but I do. I vote on a candidate based on their principles, not by the letter before their name.
     
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    I would bet the farm that I have voted for far more "R's" than you have "D's"
     

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